Dave McGillivray operates under three principles: Set goals, not limits; the worst injustice anyone can perform is underestimating their own ability; those who doubt things can get done shouldn't interrupt those who are doing. McGillivray is one of those force-of-nature people who command and inspire. He is a philanthropist, organizer, motivational speaker and author. He was a national-class runner and endurance athlete who competed in Ironman triathlons and who once ran across country.

NEWPORT NEWS - Monday's sweltering heat was hardly conducive for running 26.2 miles, but the air conditioning inside the Marriott City Center was working just fine. So there was plenty of enthusiasm as officials announced the inaugural Newport News One City Marathon, which should take place in more favorable temperatures. The first full marathon on the Peninsula is scheduled for March 15, starting at Newport News Park near Fort Eustis and finishing downtown at the Victory Arch. The course will take runners through the Christopher Newport University campus, along the James River and past various neighborhoods.

Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon generated an outpouring of support, particularly within the running community. For next month's Run for the Dream races here, the effect has been a greater resolve for an even bigger and better event. Kelly Baker, event director for this year's Run for the Dream, expects no less. "Runners are resilient," she said in an interview Thursday. "We shouldn't let (Boston) change what we love to do. Perseverance is one of the defining qualities that is prevalent throughout the athletic community.

WILLIAMSBURG - The third annual Run for the Dream 8K on Saturday drew nearly 2,500 participants - and many more lined the course through Colonial Williamsburg and the campus on William and Mary to cheer on competitors. Tracy Lokken was at the front of the pack for a majority of the Run for the Dream 8K, finishing in 25 minutes, 28 seconds. Nancy Meck, 41, was the first female finisher and the 28th overall, with a time of 30:28. Lokken, 47, from Marquette, Mich., sped through the 4.97-mile course at a pace of 5:08 per mile, in his first time competing at the event.

Two new distance races in Williamsburg next year will benefit Achievable Dream and the Wounded Warrior program. One race will be a half-marathon, the other an 8K race. We talk to Dave McGillivray, director of the Boston Marathon for past 22 years, who will be in charge of the races.

Let's see, how to describe Thomas Gounley? Who, as a kid, taught himself to ride a unicycle for no apparent reason. Who, on a whim, decided to bike 1,350 miles from St. Louis to Yorktown. And who, in his latest bit of inspired madness, will run the Boston Marathon while juggling. "Well," says his mother, Judy, "he was always entertaining for the neighbors. " No doubt. Gounley, the 2008 salutatorian at Peninsula Catholic and soon-to-be graduate at the University of New Hampshire, has never been called ordinary.

If you were not able to see Home Team Sports' "exclusive" live coverage of the Boston Marathon last Monday, you probably thought you could watch the delayed broadcast at 7:30 p.m. The only problem was HTS neglected to show the delayed broadcast as it promised. According to Cheryl Constantino, marketing assistant for HTS, the station's hockey contract with SportsChannel America skewered the plans. "We are required to show the hockey games," Constantino said. So instead of rerunning the marathon telecast, which was three hours long, HTS broadcast "Soccer Scene" at 7:30 p.m., followed by "Washington Post Sports Talk" at 8 and the Minnesota North Stars vs. Chicago Blackhawks game at 8:30.

For Kathy Stover, running in her first Boston Marathon April 17 was incredible. The 10,000 runners and the tens of thousands of spectators were simply overwhelming. "I cried going up Heartbreak Hill and cried when I finished the race. I was that happy," the 29-year-old Newport News physical therapist said. Stover was also happy about her time in the 26.2-mile race - a personal best of 3 hours, 25 minutes, 42 seconds. Then to top it off, she met and got autographs from the winners - Uta Pippig of Germany and Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya.

Blaise Supler finally experienced that winning feeling. It wasn't exactly the Boston Marathon - in which she'll be competing April 17 - but winning the women's overall title Saturday in the Daffodil Festival Ware Landing 5K Race in Gloucester still felt good. "I'd never won a race before, so when I was leading at the halfway point, I couldn't believe it," the 34-year-old Washington, D.C., public defender said. Supler held off her challengers down the stretch and finished the 5 kilometers in 21 minutes, 54 seconds.

A group of area runners are trying to get a head start on being a part of marathon history. The Boston Marathon, the only marathon besides the U.S. Olympic trials which requires a qualifying time for entry, will celebrate its 100th running on April 15, 1996. Race officials are expecting about 25,000 athletes in the field and are offering a space-available lottery which will also allow non-qualifiers to participate. But these local runners, who are members of the Peninsula Track Club, want to qualify for the Boston Marathon the old-fashioned way -by earning their spot with a qualifying time before Dec. 31. "I don't care how many marathons I have to run to qualify," said Marilyn Davis of Newport News, who is running in the Las Vegas Marathon this Saturday in hopes of getting her qualifying time of 3 hours, 50 minutes.

When I contacted Clay Harrison, Readers' Choice winner of the 2013 Daily Press poetry contest, to chat with him about his work, he told me he'd been in his yard, tending his garden. It didn't take more than a few minutes of conversation for me to understand that tending others is what Harrison does, not only with his works, but with his words. It started with the death of a neighbor's 2-year-old daughter when Harrison was in high school. To help the family through its grief, he wrote "Little Lorraine" and had the poem printed on funeral cards.

Remember the other party? Where were Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham when attacks destroyed embassy buildings and killed employees in 11 countries during the Bush/Cheney Republican Administration? What about the numerous attacks made on the embassy in Baghdad, Iraq during the war in Iraq? Then President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney just coasted right along without a murmur of decent. Does anyone remember the term "Weapons of Mass Destruction"?

Public-housing time limits A proposal by the Obama administration could allow public housing agencies to set time limits for units or vouchers, giving residents several years to improve their circumstances and find alternative housing. •Rick Papcun: It's funny, people watch the TV show "Survivor" and will vilify a player who doesn't contribute or pull his own weight. Yet when it comes to the real world, the same people have all kind of excuses. Disability is the new way people are gaming the system.

NEWPORT NEWS—A federal judge blasted the Coast Guard repeatedly for preventing a Maltese-flagged ship from leaving the Port of Virginia as its crew are investigated for allegedly violating environmental laws. In a Monday hearing Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Doumar said Coast Guard officials set an "unreasonable" bond for the release of the Antonis G. Pappadakis at a level beyond what the ship's owner, Angelex Ltd., could afford. And he suggested on multiple occasions that the Coast Guard's unwillingness to budge from a bond of $2.5 million had to do with his own public criticisms of the agency.

Hampton Mayor Molly Joseph Ward, chairwoman of the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization, got it partly right. Her "congestion pricing" assumes there is enough discretion travel during peak travel hours in our tunnels that a small toll would cause people to drive at other times. However, most people travel when they must, not when they'd like to. Tourist, shoppers and other travelers aren't going to wait until dark to travel, even if it costs a few bucks. Mayor Ward estimates 10 percent of travelers would adjust their habits.

Unity in support The Muslim Community in the local area was shocked and saddened to hear about the blasts at the Boston Marathon. Our prayers are with the victims and their loved ones. We are grateful to the many government and security officials dedicated to this case, and to all those who immediately responded to the tragedy — the first responders, medical professionals and all those who demonstrated the best of humanity at a time of great evil. While we do not yet know the motivation for these heinous attacks, people of all faiths know that the horrific acts committed go against everything to which God calls us. It is rather the loving, selfless acts of those who immediately responded on the scene that best uphold His teachings.

Ralph Walker needs a miracle. His dad is a dead war hero. His mom is in a coma, dying. Ralph sneaks about, living alone at home, forging notes to his Catholic school in order to stay enrolled, even though he just uses school to make trouble for his teachers. "But I'm destined for greatness!" says Ralph (Adam Butcher). And he believes it. The miracle he figures he needs in order to snap mom out of her coma and his life back into line is winning the Boston Marathon.

Jim Goggin of Williamsburg and Joe Harney of Hampton are Beantown natives and will be running in their first official Boston Marathon. Goggin, 42, ran for Boston College's cross country team. He paced a friend for 20 miles in the 1979 Boston Marathon, and qualified for this year's Boston with a time of 2:58.07 at a Greensboro, N.C., race. His fastest marathon time is 2:30.59. Harney, a 57-year-old lottery entrant, had a quadruple heart bypass in May of 1992 and picked up running a year later at the encouragement of his friend, O.C. Thompsen , who left a message on his car, "6:30.

Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon generated an outpouring of support, particularly within the running community. For next month's Run for the Dream races here, the effect has been a greater resolve for an even bigger and better event. Kelly Baker, event director for this year's Run for the Dream, expects no less. "Runners are resilient," she said in an interview Thursday. "We shouldn't let (Boston) change what we love to do. Perseverance is one of the defining qualities that is prevalent throughout the athletic community.

Gas cards delight crowd Members of Calvary Seventh-day Adventist Church in Newport News gathered at a Hampton gas station Thursday afternoon to hand out $10 gas cards. The outreach event was planned as a way to give back to the community, said Keenan Tyler, assistant pastor of the church. About 100 gift certificates were handed out. • Judy Jenkins: Thanks for the free gas. Security at sporting events Local police and event planners are looking for ways to increase safety at upcoming festivals and races following Monday's Boston Marathon explosions that killed three and injured more than 170. The Daily Press asked readers in an online poll: Do you think there should be more security at public sporting events?